TRA 330
Practice Task 13. Pre-final practice
Translate the below sentences into RU or KK/some entries are RU, KK to EN (you can use CAT, MT or refer
to linguistic corpora); analyze, revise, and edit translations before submitting.
Part 1
M.Горький. На дне
Translation:
Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird
Translation:
English contract law
Translation:
Keep out of reach of children
Translation:
King James Bible
Translation:
Yuval Noah Harari
Translation:
Prophet Noah
Translation:
Joseph Stalin
Translation:
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Translation:
Silver lining
Translation:
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Translation:
Throw one’s hat in the ring
Translation:
The congressman officially threw his hat in the ring and began his campaign for the Senate.
Translation:
Part 2
Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators
While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those
surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income.
More than a third of translators have lost work due to generative AI, a survey by the Society of Authors
(SoA) has found. More than four in 10 translators said that their income has decreased because of
generative AI, while more than three-quarters believe the emerging technology will negatively affect
their future income.
The SoA, the UK’s largest trade union for writers, illustrators and translators, ran the survey in January. It
found that 37% of translators had used generative AI to support their work, and 8% used it because they
were asked by their publisher or commissioning organisation.
Thomas Bunstead, whose translations from Spanish include The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández
Mallo, said it is important to draw a distinction between literary translators and “commercial”
translators. “Though a third of translators have responded to the SoA survey saying they think they’ve
lost work to AI already, literary translation remains in the hands of humans,” he said. “The work that has
presumably been handed over to AI will be the kind of uncomplicated bread-and-butter stuff which
doesn’t require so much nuance,” such as instruction manuals.